N.Z. CASUALTIES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23094, 9 August 1940, Page 10

N.Z. CASUALTIES

: WINNER OF D.F.C. KILLED i . (PSESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) | WELLINGTON. August 8. | The following air casualties are offi- ; dally announced; — • Pilot Officer Raymond Thomas Kean, r D.F.C., killed in an aircraft acci- > dent. His father is Mr M. Kean, > Metropolitan Hotel, Dunedin. I Sergeant R. F. Holford, crashed after ’ operational flight; He is not seri- ’ ously injured. His father is Mr ! G. H. Holford, 26 Nottingham ; street, Karori, Wellington. . Pilot Officer Arthur Vivian Fisher, 3 killed in an aircraft accident; His , father is Mr A. Fisher, Paeroa, R.D. ‘ TONGANS JOIN MAORI j BATTALION [ (TEES 3 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) 3 AUCKLAND. August 8. Three young Tongans,' who paid their fares to New Zealand five weeks I ago and applied to join the Special ; Force, were rewarded to-day by re- ’ celving notice to join the Maori Bat- .’ talion undergoing training at Papa- ’ kura camp. Military headquarters J emphasised, however, that the action 1 was not to be regarded as a precedent ’ by other Tongans. i COURTS -MARTIAL : POWERS GIVEN GENERAL FREYBERG (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEORASI.) WELLINGTON, August 8. The Gazette contains a notice authorising Major-General B. C. FreyI berg. Officer Commanding the 2nd : New Zealand Expeditionary Force, to 1 convene general or district courts | martial, to confirm the findings and ; sentences of such courts, and to dele- ; gate this authority to any officer un--1 der his command not .below the degree ; of field officer. '